The Immigration Skills Charge (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Amendment to the Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017

2.—(1) The Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4 (exemptions from the charge), after paragraph (f) insert—

“(g) who is intended to be a Scale-up Worker, within the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules(2);

(h) who is intended to be:

(i ) a Senior or Specialist Worker, within the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules; and

(ii ) the subject of an intra-corporate transfer for a period of no more than 36 months as an intra-corporate transferee, as defined by Article 140(5)(d) to (g) of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part.”.

(1)

S.I. 2017/499, amended by S.I. 2020/1208.

(2)

“Immigration rules” is defined in regulation 2 of the Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017.